Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-20
NOTES AND BEAMS.

OUr San Francisco contemporaries con-
tinue 10 read the Judges of the Federal
Courts lessons on their duty, and to charge
them with open, fragrant and vicious vio-
lation Of the law, and to demand that thew
he impeached therefor. Yet our San
Francisco contemporaries go about with
beams in their eyes. In the same issues
IN which they scarify the Courts and talk
loudly Of the majesty of the law, and the
duty Of the good citizen to obey it, they
openly and lagrantly violate the Consti-
tuition and the laws of the State. Cheek
by jowl with editorial counsel about
obeying the law, they defantly print lot
terry advertisements, and thereby commit
crime denounced by the Constitution and
the Law.
Have they private understanding with
the officers in San Francisco? Is their
peace constantly made" with the Grand
Juries?
This journal and many of its interior
contemporaries have over and again called
attention to this vicious defiance of the
law by the San Francisco newspapers, and
the officers have had full knowledge of the
violation for two years past Yet never a
step has been taken to vindicate the law
and stop the outrage
Not one Of the newspapers-conservator
OF public morals-hayc ever ventured to
print single line in defense of their
course. They know they have none. 1t
IS simply logged, dumb persistence for
coins sake. They know, every one of them.
and the publishers of every one of them
editors, stockholders and managers-that
the thieving institution they advertise
robs the people of the State OF hundreds
Of thousands of dollars monthly. Thev
would fog one of their sons who would so
debase himself as to gamble in the scheme ;
they would not give their daughters to be
wives Of men whose business is to sell the
tickets Of the thieving concern; they re-
cord with gravity the arrest and punish
ment Of men who are caught peddliug the
coupons of the lottery, ana know that they
are the more guilty and ought to be more
severely punished themselves, since they
print and circulate the alluring array of
prize-lists that sends many man to ruin,
and buries many one in the grave of the
suicide. They know that clerks pilfer
that trusted agents rob their principals :;
that laborers starve their families; that
school teachers, men and women. in San
Francisco waste their income; that BOYS
and girls by the thousand in San Francisco
hoard their dimes; all in order to gamble at
the lottery game the newspapers advertise
IN defiance of the law. Yet not pub
Usher, or manager, of the entire lot has
the moral courage to deny his purse and
say, ] will not do this thing; l will not
openly defy the law and contribute to the
lowest. meanest, most unfair and cut-throat
system of gambling known"
Compose yourselves, gentlemen, in your
VAiSe 0AdArsi anu Srltlcise the Courts (;
demand that the laws be enforced, and
seourge neglectful officials; descant upon
the Nervousness of crime; denounce the
biackeg and the gambler; spare not the
defaulter nor the pilfering clerk; pour out
the yiais of your Indignation upon offenders
IN general, aud stand for the laws and
tier Observance; for, Notwithstanding
that yen are paid agents of the lottery the
laws OF your State forbid you to advertise,
are not you, as conservators of morals and
opponents Of public opinion, examples of
reetitule and good citizenship?